Duncan Barkes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Take the first one first.
Another opportunity for John Messina to demonstrate the corporate lawyer in himself because...
Thank you very much.
It's been a quiet week for news, don't we know it, but something trickled into the studio on the studio PC a few moments ago.
It may be an old story, maybe 24 hours old.
You may have seen it.
You may not.
It hasn't caused any waves or ructions yet, but it's interesting.
And what it is, is.
From the period February 2025 to February 2026, they've published the agent fees, the agent's fees, fees paid to agents by all the championship clubs.
And guess where we are on that league table?
You've seen it.
11.9 million.
In agent fees alone.
So you ask a good question.
What is it they actually do apart from negotiate a contract?
And I've had a few brushes with show business or broadcasting agents down the years.
And generally speaking, they say, we don't do anything.
We're not going to pick up the phone and talk to you even.